The pricing of progress : economic indicators and the capitalization of American life /

How did Americans come to quantify their society's progress and well-being in units of money? In today's GDP-run world, prices are the standard measure of not only our goods and commodities but our environment, our communities, our nation, even our self-worth. The Pricing of Progress trace...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cook, Eli, 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Temas:
Capitalism > United States > History.
Economic indicators > United States > History.
Valuation > United States > History.
Progress.
Indicateurs économiques > États-Unis > Histoire.
Évaluation > États-Unis > Histoire.
Progrès.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Capitalism
Economic indicators
Progress
Valuation
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The political arithmetic of price
  • Seeing like a capitalist
  • The spirit of non-capitalism
  • The age of moral statistics
  • The hunt for growth
  • The coronation of King Capital
  • State of statistical war
  • The pricing of progressivism
  • Epilogue: Toward GDP.

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